The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 4

In the garden were the most beautiful flowers, and on the loveliest of them were tied silver bells which tinkled, so that if you passed you could not help looking at the flowers.

Who acts: silver, you · What happens: be, tie, bell, tinkle, pass, not help · To what, where: beautiful flowers, garden

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silver, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 garden	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garden	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flowers	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flowers	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flowers	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 beautiful	advmod
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flowers	amod
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tied	nsubj:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 loveliest	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 loveliest	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 loveliest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 loveliest	det
13	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 flowers	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 loveliest	obl
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tied	aux:pass
17	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bells	nsubj
19	bells	bell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tied	conj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 tinkled	nsubj
21	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bells	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 passed	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 passed	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 passed	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 passed	nsubj
27	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tied	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 help	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 help	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 help	advmod
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 passed	ccomp
32	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 help	xcomp
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 flowers	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 flowers	det
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 looking	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the beautiful flowers	the garden		tree rules
2	be					of flowers = flower	tree rules
3	tie	past · passive		the beautiful flowers			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	bell	present	silver				tree rules
5	tinkle	past					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pass	past	you				tree rules
7	not help	could	you				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	look not said to happen	gerund	you not said here			at the flowers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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